Kelly v. State

OPINION

Appellant Robert Dale Kelly was convicted of the crime of armed robbery of a cab driver of $27.00. He was undergoing treatment at the Washoe County Mental Health Institute as a resident patient and was absent from there at the time the crime was committed.

Appellant’s first contention is that the denial of a full hearing into the defendant’s competency at arraignment was an abuse of the trial judge’s discretion. We cannot agree. A previous psychiatric examination had been ordered which specifically concluded that the defendant was “presently in possession of sufficient ability and…